This is the cbs morning news for friday, august 8th, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Three years after the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from iraq, military aircraft are making a return. American cargo planes escorted by fighter jets dropped humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of iraqi religious minorities. The president says its an effort to prevent a genocide. Its happening in the sinjar mountains in the northwestern area of iraq. They were forced into the area as the takeover of iraqi resources continues to expand. Tara mergener reports from washington. Reporter president obama authorized the targeted air strikes on iraq but he was quick to say they that does not mean war. Reporter the militant group known as isis is said to be advancing toward the city of erbil where american diplomats and civilians are serving. We are prepared to take action if they threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. Reporter the president also confirmed humanitarian
2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Three years after t withdrawal of u. S. Troops from iraq, military aircraft are making a return. American cargo planes escorted by fighter jets dropped humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of iraqi religious minorities. The president says its an effort to prevent a genocide. Its happening in the sinjar mountains in the northwestern area of iraq. They were foed aa as the takeover of iraqi resources continues to expand. Tara mergener reports from washington. Reporter president obama authorized the targeted air strikes on iraq but he was quick to say they that does not mean war. Reporter the militant group known as isis is said to be advancing toward the city of erbil where american diplomats and civilians are serving. We are prepared to take action if they threaten our personnel or facilities anywhere in iraq. Reporter the president also confirmed humanitarian air drops of food and water near sinjar mountain where thousands of
The first was in somalia. Where a Navy Seal Team launch an operation against a Senior Leader i. Now the other raid happened foresfourthousand miles away ind its target was a alqaeda member in libya. Nazih abdulhamed alruqai. He has a five Million Dollars reward on his head. Peter there has been conflicting reports of a senior al shabab leader. First we hear there was a high level target captured. And then the u. S. State department retracted it. What do we now see as true. It seemed as the Mission Failed to get any al shabab targets what we know from the pen apentgon sources. We dont know who was targeted or who the team was. We know it was Navy Seal Team six the same unit responsible for killing s osama bin laden. There was no senior official at at the base of the house at the time of the operation. Other sources have told us that the al shabab leader was there. We understand from al shabab and our security sources that none of the targets were captured or killed. One person was kille
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